Community

• The dictionary defines “community” as:

  • A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations.
  • Of common character, likeness, frequency

• The Internet enables the formation of a new class of communities that could not previously exist.

  • People with common interests or values
  • Potentially broadly geographically distributed

• Inability to participate in the growing society of Internet-enabled communities is a fundamental problem, often called the “digital divide”